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EU Policy on Death Penalty
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Background: EU Policy against the Death Penalty
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- Protocol No. 6 to the Council of Europe Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms concerning the Abolition of the Death Penalty
- Protocol No. 13 to the Council of Europe Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms, concerning the abolition of the death penalty in all circumstances
- Protocol to the American Convention on Human Rights to Abolish the Death Penalty
